Massive Attack, 'Splitting the Atom' (Virgin)
Cinematic soul seekers scout nightmare's edge.
By Barry Walters 10.07.09 9:59 AM
Suggesting enormous dread through anxious details, this four-track preview of the Bristol trip-hop collective's long-awaited 2010 album slithers like adelicate monster.
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Q&A: Massive Attack
Daddy G talks about his band's star-studded 2010 album. Plus: Hear a track from their new EP!
By Peter Gaston 09.08.09 1:57 PM
Bass rumbles in the background of Massive Attack MC Daddy G's mobile phone, and the gentle coo of frequent collaborator and reggae legend Horace Andy is barely audible over the din. "I'm looking at [Andy] as you're talking," Daddy G says excitedly, yelling over the noise.
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Q&A: Aziz Ansari
The comic costar of NBC's Parks and Recreation and the film Funny People, on the soundtrack to his life.
By Phoebe Reilly 07.01.09 4:09 PM
What was the first album you bought with your own money?
Vanilla Ice’s To the Extreme, but let’s not put it all on me. Plenty of people were into the Ice Man. It’s not like Vanilla Ice sold ten records, and I’m one of the ten people that bought it. We all got fooled. I just happened to be at the age when it was the first album I bought.
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TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone Goes Solo
The hirsute Brooklynite announces details for his fall release. Click here for more!
By Melissa Goldstein 06.23.09 9:59 AM
TV on the Radio singer-guitarist Kyp Malone has revealed plans to release a solo album this fall under the moniker Rain Machine. But that's not all -- he's also taken the opportunity to come clean about all sorts of surprising stuff, including his aesthetic aversion to his own name and his amenability toward "LOL"!
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Erykah Badu's Festival Memories: Family, Friends, Collaborations
The R&B star writes about her favorite festival memories -- and how they spawned partnerships with bands like TV on the Radio.
By as told to SPIN; Erykah Badu 04.23.09 2:56 PM
[Editor's note: For our May issue's summer festival section, SPIN spoke with a number of artists on the festival circuit, from Gaslight Anthem and Metric to Doves and Jane's Addiction. Among them is neo-soul songstress Erykah Badu. Here, she tells us about her favorite moments backstage and waxes on music's power to bring people together.
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Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews, Beastie Boys Play S.F. Fest
Plus: M.I.A., Modest Mouse, the Mars Volta, Incubus and more sign on for Outside Lands, scheduled for Aug. 28-30.
By William Goodman 04.13.09 10:45 AM
Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, and the Beastie Boys have been announced as the headlining performers for San Francisco's second Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival, which is scheduled to hit Golden Gate Park August 28-30.
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